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Backpage Seized By Feds
by grarpamp 07 Apr '18

07 Apr '18

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16776932 https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/8acrj6/fbi_seizes_control_of_backpag… https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/04/06/2055220/fbi-seizes-backpagecom-a-s… https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report%202017.01.10%2…

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Re: [Cryptography] India Crypto Currency Ban
by grarpamp 07 Apr '18

07 Apr '18

On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 4:23 AM, Sandeep Kamboj <sandeep2147(a)gmail.com> wrote: > "India Crypto Currency Ban" Fake News! > India's central bank has announced a ban on the sale or purchase of > crypto-currency. No such jurisdiction beyond themselves. https://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/PressRelease/PDFs/PR264270719E5CB28249D7BC… https://medium.com/@blockchainlawyer.india/rbi-press-release-05apr2018-fud-… https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/04/06/no-india-not-just-banned-virtual… Indians are still free to buy / sell / hold / use cryptocurrency amongst themselves and business however they want, including via exchanges. And even if they weren't, hardly anything short of pulling the plug on the internet will stop cryptocurrency. > "In view of the associated risks Fake Risks! > entities regulated by RBI shall not deal with or provide services to RBI stock price drops on news as competitors move in. More govt shenanigans https://wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetisation

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Cryptocurrency: Monero Forked Hard - 4 New Projects Born, Ops and Key Claiming Begin
by grarpamp 07 Apr '18

07 Apr '18

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8ah959/monero_forked_hard_… https://decentralpost.com/2018/04/07/monero-forked-hard-4-new-projects-born/

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Forced Decrypt: Russia vs Telegram , US vs Anywhere, Secure P2P Chat
by grarpamp 07 Apr '18

07 Apr '18

https://politics.slashdot.org/story/18/04/06/1426215/russia-files-lawsuit-t… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14560106 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=telegram&sort=byDate https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/04/06/0246223/the-supreme-court-fight-ove… P2P https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16743055 https://grothoff.org/christian/habil.pdf

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Chelsea Manning US Senate Candidate Interview 3/27
by grarpamp 07 Apr '18

07 Apr '18

Stop the system Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hC6ojvH9Us https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/27/we_cannot_wait_for_change_freed Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3QFe78G3hw https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/28/chelsea_mannings_platform_for_us_sen… Campaign Vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAXo1Y7AK_I https://twitter.com/xychelsea #WeGotThis Other https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSx1VG8UnF8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGitzTGqA5s https://freedom.press/news/freedom-of-the-press-foundation-publishes-leaked… https://s3.amazonaws.com/pressfreedom/bradley_manning_statement/full_statem… https://s3.amazonaws.com/pressfreedom/bradley_manning_statement/full_statem…

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Fedz seize BackPage
by Razer 07 Apr '18

07 Apr '18

"The United States government has seized Backpage.com, the controversial classifieds website. A notice informing visitors of the seizure was posted on the site, and a Justice Department spokesperson confirmed the notice. According to the notice, the website and its affiliates were seized “as part of an enforcement action” by the FBI, as well as other federal and local agencies. The notice provides little other information, saying the Department of Justice will provide more at 6PM EST today. Backpage was the target of allegations that it facilitated sex trafficking and prostitution through its adult section, a controversy that took years to unwind and culminated in the arrest of the company’s CEO and eventual removal of the adult section. “The FBI can confirm that law enforcement activity is occurring,” a spokesperson for the FBI’s Phoenix field office told The Verge. The office referred further questions to the Justice Department, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Last month, Congress passed controversial legislation meant to give law enforcement more power to stop online sex trafficking. Backpage became a central part of the discussion around the legislation, which many sex workers opposed. Developing..." https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/6/17207838/backpage-com-seized-website-down…

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CryptoRave Brazil May 4-5 2018
by grarpamp 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

https://cryptorave.org/ https://twitter.com/cryptoravebr CryptoRave hosts activities on security, cryptography, hacking, anonimity, privacy and freedom on the web. This is the 5th year. It is inspired on the global and decentralized global action of https://cryptoparty.in/ Some prior topics https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://cpa.cr… https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://we.ris…

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ByScience NewsApp
by jim bell 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Photonic communication in chips.Let me recommend you this NEWS from Science NewsApp https://phys.org/news/2018-04-photonic-chips.html

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Strong Privacy / Survivability [ref: ZKP, was: Proof of Work]
by grarpamp 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 7:26 AM, Natanael <natanael.l(a)gmail.com> wrote via cryptography@metzdowd: > Zero-knowledge proofs (and other topics) Bitcoin BTC and subsequent coins, all of them until no more than ~2 years ago, rolled out with massive downgrade to how fiat cash / banking work... in that entire blockhain transaction history both exists, and is visible to all. Without so much as consent or notice or pemission by anyone or anything, anyone can divine and rummage significant of your history at will forever. Horrible downgrade. Yet such existance and visibility are not requirements to a functional currency. Only that UTXO set [1] are considered by the system to be valid, thus acceptable and trusted as future inputs. Not required are the privacy destroying, colorable arbitrary fungibility breaking, forever datamined, unneeded disk bloating, etc nature of this major feature downgrade to existing p2p / proxied fiat. Back then perhaps true ZK crypto privacy or any other cryptographically strong privacy method was unknown / unimplemented. You may think of more methods. However system software network design validating and keeping only the UTXOs was more than likely possible. Of course to keep rogues software from datamining... strong crypto way is still needed. And having that, then all participants will discard all spent records as inefficient, forever unvisable, dead weight. You must think up such designs. Today strong privacy is generally thought at least possible, and has two different approaches implemented and deployed in active networks competing live in the marketplace today. You must review methods and approaches in the research, and further consider of how to move beyond entry level scale and even tx types there. Generally in coins... is up to users to choose use enable or disable privacy capable coins by default, per-tx, or other basis. And to you to awaken, where others may fail, why such coins exist. Cypherpunk philosophy cannot survive in any coin that is non private or readily blockable... only when encoded in coins that are only / selectably private, running as / in fully encrypted and resistant networks, with DEXs, mining, etc all as part. Which means that non private cryptocurrencies will not survive any different than fiat central in long term. You may think of many reasons why. Survivability is from and of many things... including elements of such philosophy. Much can and must be improved and implemented there. [1] Basic ledger transfers, yet even as possible to multisig, operations, contracts, etc.

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Re: #CensorshipKills
by grarpamp 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Some may read based minimal on subject, text in article urls, other factors, and ride cleaner high of freethink without verbose stuffing of regurgitated mass media NLP riplines. Whereas HTML wrappers are but unnecessary max read of extra rubbish. Tis shame some alluded to activists have no commentary, thoughts, ideas, even simple solidarity in others... including those happened upon the fates. For that some, perhaps unnoted shall be their own causes and fate.

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